Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anytime I see something screech across a room and latch onto someone's neck, and the guy screams and tries to get it off, I have to laugh, because what is that thing.

Tom Udall

As a member of the U.S. House Law Enforcement Task Force, I join with local citizens across New Mexico toward the goal of reducing crime,

M.I.A.

As an artist, you want to play around with mediums and see if you can get the point across in different way.

Charles Powell

The British are definitely comparing notes on Moroccan cells across Europe, in Italy, France and the UK. The current thinking is that the people who did this may have trained in the same camps as the people who committed the Madrid bombings. The techniques are very similar.

Dennis Lillee

Australia was ambushed by England because way too many people right across the board were living in a comfort zone. The first priority is to appoint a captain who can lead from the front.

Robbie Hood

Rain over water affects the climate of the whole planet. It releases energy into the atmosphere. What happens in the tropics is extremely important to the climate of the whole Earth. If you can't measure rain over the ocean, you're missing a lot of activity and you'll never truly understand what is happening to the weather across the world.

Russ Pate

Randy Covington (at WIS) leaned across the table and basically told them that this is an important news event in Columbia, South Carolina, that we're here to cover the news and we're going to cover the news. (Olympic officials) decided they had better play ball or lose control of the whole thing.

John Tanner

Rather than the constituents electing the members of the legislatures across the land and the Congress, the members of the Congress and legislatures elect their constituents,

Ed Moyle

Rather than setting a universally high security bar across all systems in the enterprise, an enterprise might segregate systems into different 'zones,'

Brian Reed

Randy was saying that he hadn't won a championship since he left Marshall and that (the '96 title) was something he was very proud of. With the 10-year anniversary coming up he really wanted to celebrate that.

Judy Randall

People outside of Virginia are not as emphatically enthusiastic about the anniversary as those inside Virginia are. It doesn't have the same degree of meaning for them as it would for Virginians.

Nancy Anderson

This dovetails nicely with the 225-year anniversary of the first meeting of the Continental Congress. I can foresee this being tied to all of the heritage tours that are offered.

Carson Daly

I think long-lasting, healthy relationships are more important than the idea of marriage. At the root of every successful marriage is a strong partnership.

Jamie Lee Curtis

My mother and stepfather were married 43 years, so I have watched a long marriage. I feel like I had a very good role model for that. And, you know, it's just a number.

Boris Pasternak

Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.

John Tierney

Dr. King's lectures and dialogues stirred the concern and sparked the conscience of a generation. As the anniversary of his birth coincides with the anniversary of No Child Left Behind, we must take this opportunity to speak out to ensure fair implementation and full funding of this landmark law.

Luis Clemente

Every year people would come here on the anniversary and drop flowers in the water. Eventually it was just us.

Don Cornelius

We just seem to be surrounded on this anniversary show by all of our personal favorites. I have to say that in the first person, because they're my personal favorites.

Shekhar Kapur

As a director, my job is to spend money, and the producer's is to save money. Masoom, Bandit Queen and the first Queen Elizabeth have been my most uncompromised films.

Adam Schoenfeld

Bandwidth is a big growth category, ... It's an important trend that the Internet sector offers some choice and segmentation.

Chris Culos

Now, it's an extremely big name to live up to, but it kind of fits. We had all played in other bands before, and so this was our musical revolution, where we could finally play the music we wanted.

Billie Armstrong

Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a life-style. There are a lot of bands around who claim to be punk and they only play the music, they have no clue what it's all about. It's a life-style I chose for myself.

Kevin Lyman

Punk is the root of this. Everything else is an offshoot. Some of it sticks and some of it doesn't. The best bands rise to the top.

Graham Nash

It was very important in the beginning, because we'd all come out of bands that were the Buffalo Springfield, the Hollies.

Mike Birbiglia

I sometimes think of not doing Twitter or Facebook anymore, but that's how people find their favorite bands and comedians.

Bobby Cox

It wouldn't stop bleeding. It just kept going. We couldn't bandage it.

Craig Finn

There are things that we do that differentiate us from them. But look, if you're going to be compared to someone, then those are two of the greatest rock-and-roll bands ever, so I'm feeling pretty good.

Shirley Manson

We just wanted to make a record that sounded cool. So we stole from hip-hop, we stole from techno and blues and mashed them all up.

Al MacInnis

I am truly honored that the Blues have elected to retire my number, and I'm flattered to join the list of players who have been recognized before me. I will always consider myself part of the Blues family and will look back on my playing days here with fond memories of my teammates, my coaches, the staff and, last but not least, the fans.

Merry Clayton

I got put out of my church choir because my pastor said, 'We can't have baby sister singing the blues and coming in here and singing on Sunday morning.'

John Brady

I think there are a lot of wannabes...but I don't think there's another Lee Atwater, ... but no one can play blues guitar with B.B. King that I know of and also run a presidential campaign...

Benicio Toro

I listen to all types of music. I have been in Memphis recently, so I've been listening to some blues like Muddy Waters, and some early Elvis.

Sally Brown

It?s a lot of fun for everyone who plays and everyone who comes to watch. People really get into it. Last year?s Town Hall team dressed in St. Patrick?s Day garb, while the year before they brought us out of the winter blues with a Hawaiian dress theme, complete with leis. You forget the fact that it?s a fund-raiser.

Sharon Bradford

For her to call us and cry the blues to us, you know, about how she's feeling and stuff.

David Edwards

You could play the blues like it was a lonesome thing - it was a feeling. The blues is nothing but a story... The verses which are sung in the blues is a true story, what people are doing... what they all went through. It's not just a song, see?

Hugh Laurie

When I was a small boy, 10, 11, 12, probably somewhere around there, when I first heard a blues song on the radio, it was a jolt of electricity. It grabbed me by the throat, it made me shiver. And I knew from that moment that this was for me and this would be with me for the rest of my life.

Matt Johnson

As brothers go, I'd say that if we weren't twins, then we were pretty much damn near close.

Denis McDonough

As a husband, father and public servant, I'm thankful for the counsel and wisdom of my older brothers - Bill, who was a priest, and Kevin, who is a priest.

Jeffrey Thomas

I've never actually participated in role-playing games myself, except on one occasion when a coworker of mine came to my house and introduced my two brothers and me to a single game of 'Dungeons & Dragons.'

J. M. Roberts

I've always thought it would be so fun to have brothers and sisters to fight with,

Abu Sabaya

The Muslims are our brothers . . . I am not saying we have no contact with them.

Drew Goddard

The movies I respond to are by guys like the Coen brothers and Edgar Wright, where it's hard to fit them into any one box.

Brown Johnson

I used to run around singing my life to myself. I'd be singing 'I'm going to fall down,' singing about what I was having for lunch, about how mean my brothers were.

Tom Maurer

I used to work in Gary Indiana. I was a life guard, the brothers and the sister would all come down to the pool but the grease from hair goes everywhere and they can't swim.

Kate Bronfenbrenner

This is sponsored by the Rockefeller Brothers Foundation, which is not a subversive group.

Helio Castroneves

Once you do it, you have to keep it going. You have to understand, he (Stewart) is not the one who started that. When he's in the mood to do it, he might do it. I have fun with it, and obviously it would be a thrill to climb this fence here and celebrate with the fans.

Jane Gillette

The whole concept was to celebrate spring, not illustrate Washington.

Paula Abdul

You moved me. ... You celebrate what this competition is all about, and you are an American Idol.

Bob Kemp

We want to celebrate the immense positive contribution of volunteers in Henderson County.

Karen Carlson

We are very proud, and thankful, to be recipients of the Oregon Cultural Trust. A new library will offer a way to preserve and respect our community's diversity and celebrate our community's Native American history.

Lord Mayor

We went on and celebrated and had a great, great party.

Jen Rizzotti

With four kids coming from towns within an hour's drive, it will be like a homecoming. There's not a better way to celebrate our season.

Mike Prpich

We're very lucky to get another chance. It's a great opportunity. We have some unfinished business. We got that feeling of what it's like to watch another team celebrate at the end of the season. We can use that for motivation, because we don't want to let that happen to us again.

Charles Fishman

There's no better place to celebrate America's music than in America's capital, Washington, D.C.. Washingtonians and music lovers nationwide will now have another great reason to enjoy our wonderful city.

Mike Colter

As artists, we are so not in control most of the time of the content or the narrative of our characters, and sometimes writing takes a turn and it's not something we necessarily have control over. It's just a lot of random dumb luck, so when things click, you've just got to enjoy it.

John Battelle

'Dependent web' platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, Google and Yahoo are where people go to discover and share new content. Independent sites are the millions of blogs, community and service sites where passionate individuals 'hang out' with like-minded folks. This is where shared content is often created.

Tracy Smith

So the content will be more dynamic which will lead to more people using the site.

Amado Guevara

It was all three goals, not just the last one. But I'm not content. I would be content if we won the game. We needed the points. It's not enough for us (getting the tie). This should make us all work harder, but I'm just happy to help the team.

Mike McCue

That's why we created Flipboard as a social magazine meant for an iPad, meant for a large touch-screen device. That idea of content presented beautifully, oriented around communities and special topics of interest, is really powerful.

Democritus

If you would know contentment, let your deeds be few.

Karen Bradley

Don't just listen to the words. Look at the dance he's doing with us. The content of the words is important, and so is the way he's communicating them.

Bob Bowman

Better content helps our business. If people watch March Madness, they'll watch baseball. They know we're out there.

James Doyle

Even though my father never made millions of dollars, he was rich in so many ways. He seemed so content with his life ... fulfilled in every way ... that he exuded this every day. Even at the simplest of gatherings, his joy and genuine happiness made me want to be around him.

Marianne Cusato

Properly designed and planned, a 1,000-square-foot house can meet a family's needs perfectly, whether it is permanent or emergency housing.

Nick Brown

These measures are not an issue of human health but are designed to prevent the spread of the virus in livestock,

John Grele

The system has been designed perhaps a little haphazardly and swiftly.

Mike Hess

The spacesuits are designed for a considerably longer period of time.

John Ashcroft

Some people fail to understand that security is designed to secure something, and what we are securing are the rights of individuals, ... Larry King Live.

Alice Fisher

The scheme was designed to mislead analysts and the investing public.

David Gamkrelidze

The rose revolution has evolved into a rose terror, designed to establish a dictatorship in the country.

Bruce Barbour

The Stewards Program is an immersion experience designed to give an overview and excite an interest in future study.

David Lewin

Is it a federal crime? Technically, yes. These mailboxes are designed for the sole usage of the postal service to serve customers. Items such as fliers or anything outside of correspondence or other mail matters is prohibited.

Dan Fellman

The rollout is slowly starting to happen, but we have a long way to go, ... As the number of conventional theaters with digital projectors increase, so will the number of theaters we serve.

Amy Poehler

The computer is the new fireplace, everyone in the family gathers around the digital hearth for warmth.

Robert Greene

I also make movies that can be seen on a small screen, as I shoot on digital video. Hopefully they can be seen small and can live like that.

Jeff Zucker

Analogue dollars for digital pennies.

Howard Rheingold

Some digital natives are extraordinarily savvy.

Linus Torvalds

I think a lot of people may find that the GPLv3 'anti-DRM' measures aren't all that wonderful after all. Digital signatures and cryptography aren't just 'bad DRM.' They very much are 'good security' too.

Rodney Brooks

Much to the surprise of the builders of the first digital computers, programs written for them usually did not work.

Tom Rutledge

In every way, it's exactly the same product as (subscribers would) get with a physical hard disk digital video recorder.

Nicholas Negroponte

Digital living will include less and less dependence upon being in a specific place at a specific time, and the transmission of place itself will start to become possible.

Donald Kettl

As catastrophic an event as 9/11 was, it was at least geographically bounded,

Steve Roukis

a one-time event but part of doing business, so if you split the difference, (profit per share) is 99 cents.

Vince Lombardi

The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur.

Daily Express

The terrible events of yesterday were like scenes from a Hollywood fantasy film,

Ann Williams

The water was waist deep, ... We grabbed all the kids and held them up because the water eventually got up to our necks.

James Thurber

This is an old story that keeps repeating: The people who are way out there and pushing the limits of power, they eventually are pushed out themselves. Jim Wright and Newt Gingrich did that, and they went. Now Tom DeLay. It was just a matter of time.

Philip Rivers

That's good. You have to play those (top) teams eventually anyway.

Chris Morris

You see young people, or kids, and they're fascinated by the way people talk. And that's great. But eventually you get to the point where you think, 'You know what? I don't care how you talk, I'm just listening to what you're saying.'

Tim Reilly

You see that technology migrates from hackers to innovative users and eventually to the mainstream.

Siri Hustvedt

The brain is an immensely complex organ, and many mysteries remain. Exactly how brain and mind or soma and psyche are related is one of them.

Jim Sheehan

No one was ejected and the reason explained to me is that the officials couldn't identify exactly what happened. That to me is disappointing.

Christopher Sands

So the sense of where the problem is has shifted as people become more sophisticated about what exactly is going on,

Tom McClintock

Proposition 54 simply says that our government has got to stop classifying us by race, ... It doesn't matter what race you are. The government should treat everyone exactly the same." ()

Aaron Miller

I skated pretty good today, but my back gets tired. It's going to take some time, but I'm not exactly sure how much. Hopefully soon, if it keeps getting better like it has and I don't have any set backs.

Sam Shepard

I've been so spoiled in the theater, writing plays where I can just do exactly what I want and nobody messes with me.

Charlie Batch

I've been up there and know exactly what to expect from the fans and that team,

Bob Djurdjevic

This is exactly what IBM went through during that time frame.

Steve Platt

This is not exactly the type of game you want at this stage. But you can't do anything about it but play hard.

Ravi Zacharias

Every religion at its core is exclusive.

Carmen Bambach

A showdown of the two greatest rivals of the Renaissance.

Derek Jeter

People say this is the greatest offense ever. But let us play awhile. Names don't win games. You have to play the games.

Mark Mohl

Osage had a very tough week with three quality opponents. We are disappointed we didn't win all three, but the kids had great effort.

Mitchell Joachim

Actually it's great to be an American. I love my country.

Mark V. Hurd

The more accountable I can make you, the easier it is for you to show you're a great performer.

Edward Grey

The moral is obvious: it is that great armaments lead inevitably to war.

David Wells

The money is great, no way am I complaining.

Andy Palmer

Defensively, we did a great job. I'm proud of our kids.

Krissy Kukar

Defensively they did a great job. To hold a team to 26 points in the playoffs is pretty impressive.

Paula Abdul

I've never been to MAGIC before. This is a little overwhelming.

Josh Feinman

You're not going to turn this thing around with platitudes. There are no magic bullets.

Ben Okri

The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing.

Bertrand Russell

If we were all given by magic the power to read each other's thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be to dissolve all friendships.

Jamie Cullum

When I look back on my ordinary, ordinary life, I see so much magic, though I missed it at the time.

Jane Yolen

Touch magic. Pass it on.

Brian May

There is no way that you can ever really repeat something. I have this great belief that the magic of the moment can never be recaptured.

Charles Bukowski

I could never accept life as it was, I could never gobble down all its poisons bu there were parts, tenuous magic parts open for the asking.

Marcia Wieder

Every day use your magic to be of service to others.

E. B. White

The most vulnerable part of the network are the undersea pipelines.

Richard Fox

you must have a network in order to make this a continuous, profitable scheme.

Stacey Koerner

Every network has something that it can talk about.

Matthew Felling

That was really a retelling of an old tale at that point, and that's not what most people turn to news networks for.

Andrew Heyward

Each of the networks is in a period of transition. It is extraordinary.

Marc Berman

Each network has at least one new show that's doing well. That's a real positive. There's not a single network where everything bombed.

Shari Brill

They need Thursday to be their strong night, ... Thursday was such a strong night for them so long that they used to get by without winning any other night of the week. The other networks used to roll over.

Mitch Metcalf

It's the loneliest night of the week for network television and television in general.

Jill Abramson

There's a way to do networking that isn't overly brown-nosing.

Tim Mambort

We went in pretty confident. It was all right. I don't think we were that thrilled about it.

Carolyn Clark

I am thrilled for her. It's her dream.

Harold Lewis

Bart is just thrilled to come back home.

Christopher Little

Ms. Rowling is thrilled to have been vindicated so clearly,

Michael R. Bloomberg

thrilled if I won by one vote or more.

Chris McAlister

No sacks, no turnovers. That's not our type of football.

Chris Mack

That's not a 3-point shot, but it's a game-clinching type rebound.

Lykke Li

The first thing you do when you get off tour is let off some steam and, you know, have some type of big breakdown.

Craig Ferguson

In the 1970s vampires were pretty boring. The scariest vampire was Count Chocula. One bite of Count Chocula and you were cursed with Type 2 diabetes.

Abdallah II of Jordan

I'm not the type of person that is forced.

Ryan Kavanaugh

To me, an Oscar movie has to have some type of emotional pull.

Allen Ginsberg

The typewriter is holy the poem is holy the voice is holy the hearers are holy the ecstacy is holy!

Alex Haley

But then, as far as I know, as far as I've studied or heard or picked up, it seems that this type of thing is a curse against mankind.

E. M. Forster

There has been, is, and always will be every conceivable type of person.